risk是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 冒…的危险n. 冒险; 风险,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not unmindful of the risk she ran, however, the Marchioness no sooner left the house than she dived into the first dark by-way that presented itself, and, without any present reference to the point to which her journey tended, made it her first business to put two good miles of brick and mortar between herself and Bevis Marks.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff, at the risk of being impolite, did not answer Kolosoff, and, seating himself before the steaming soup, continued to eat.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied.
-- This possibility had occurred to me again and again while I was making the machine; but then I had cheerfully accepted it as an unavoidable risk one of the risks a man has got to take!Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light.
-- At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For what would they risk their rascal carcasses but money?"
-- "Well, sir," said the captain, "better speak plain, I believe, even at the risk of offence.
-- They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
-- "Sir," said the captain, "if I risk another order, the whole ship'll come about our ears by the run.
-- I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a slice of the interior of the cabin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For three months, during which a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her course, veering suddenly from one tack to another, stopping suddenly, putting on steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one point of the Japanese or American coast was left unexplored.
-- "Mr. Aronnax," he said, "I do not know with what formidable being I have to deal, and I will not imprudently risk my frigate in the midst of this darkness.
-- "It is to use the Rouquayrol apparatus, invented by two of your own countrymen, which I have brought to perfection for my own use, and which will allow you to risk yourself under these new physiological conditions without any organ whatever suffering.
-- "Is Conseil going to risk it?"
-- But, if she could neither glide off nor move, she ran the risk of being for ever fastened to these rocks, and then Captain Nemo's submarine vessel would be done for.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hermione Roddice does risk herself in some respects."
-- I suppose we ought to admire her for knowing she can invite us school teachers and risk nothing."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do you know that you run a risk of being lost in the marshes?
-- 'As it ra ins, I hardly expect them; but they may come, and if they do, you run the risk of being scolded for no good.
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